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01Common swifts have been radar-tracked sleeping in slow ascending spirals at altitudes above 2,000 meters.
02A swift's legs are so reduced by evolution that landing on flat ground leaves it unable to take off again.
03Over a single lifetime, one swift may log roughly two million kilometres of continuous airborne travel.

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01David Greybeard was the first wild chimpanzee to accept Goodall's presence — and the first observed using a grass stem as a tool.
02Goodall had no formal science degree when Louis Leakey sent her to Gombe in 1960; he preferred it that way.
03She has traveled over 300 days per year for the past three decades advocating for conservation, into her eighties.

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01The blood on the boys' faces had to be wiped with wool soaked in milk — the boys were required to laugh.
02Women deliberately lined the streets to be struck by the goat-hide thongs, believing it guaranteed fertility.
03Pope Gelasius I tried to suppress Lupercalia in 494 AD, writing a furious letter that confirms it was still happening.

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01Students witnessed Iamblichus levitate ten cubits, bathed in golden light, on two separate occasions.
02He systematized theurgy — divine ritual magic — as philosophically superior to mere intellectual contemplation.
03His commentary on Pythagoras described numerical mysticism as the architecture underlying all reality.

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Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights , oil on oak panels, 205.5 cm × 384.9 cm (81 in × 152 in) , Museo del Prado , Madrid

01The right panel contains a man nailed to a giant harp's soundboard, his weight stretching the strings.
02A lute player nearby has sheet music tattooed across their naked buttocks — eternally performing their sin.
03Bosch painted the triptych around 1500; no commission record, patron, or explanatory document has ever been found.

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01The Friend refused all gendered pronouns for over forty years, insisting the prior self had literally ceased to exist.
02At the movement's height, the Friend led a community of hundreds at Jerusalem, New York, founded in 1788.
03Colonial crowds gathered in thousands to hear the Friend preach — a figure who claimed to carry no earthly name or sex.

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01Hocquenghem published 'Homosexual Desire' in 1972, a year before Foucault's 'The Order of Things' was translated.
02He argued the anus is the one orifice capitalism cannot productively colonize — therefore, liberation lives there.
03Hocquenghem died of AIDS in 1988 at 41, after publicly refusing to hide his diagnosis.

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01Gallo was hit by multiple rounds and staggered out onto Hester Street, collapsing on the curb — he died before the ambulance arrived.
02He had just been released from prison ten days earlier and was already back at the center of a Colombo family war.
03Bob Dylan wrote 'Joey' about him in 1975, a nine-minute ballad that became one of the most debated songs in Dylan's catalog.

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01Barre ordered his artillery to shell the Hawiye neighborhoods of Mogadishu, killing an estimated 25,000 civilians in 1990–91.
02He had ruled Somalia for 21 years under a doctrine he called 'Scientific Socialism.'
03Somalia has had no functioning central government in the three decades since his flight — the longest such collapse of any modern state.

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